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Suzanne Potter California News Service SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Lawmakers in California have introduced a first-in-the-nation bill to ban toxic chemicals in makeup and other cosmetics sold in drug stores and elsewhere in the state. Currently, it is legal for companies to sell cosmetics containing dangerous chemicals as long as...

Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk It’s true that there’s never been a better time to convert an old gas guzzling car into an emissions-free electric vehicle (EV), but some makes and models are better suited for a so-called “EV swap” than others. Michael Bream of San Marcos, California’s...

Suzanne Potter California News Service SACRAMENTO, Calif. – A new report on the nation’s Renewable Fuel Standard shows multiple ways the policy has had major unintended consequences for the environment. Researchers from University of California-Davis, Kansas State University and the University of Wisconsin found that promoting the biofuel ethanol drove up...

Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk Environmental advocates do spend a lot of time harping about threats to our oceans, but sadly for all of us the facts bear out the concern. According to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), population numbers for the majority of marine wildlife species have...

Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk Unfortunately for the 40 percent of Americans (and 90 percent of the inhabitants of the rest of the world) who live in regions with air quality below healthy standards, it is true that air pollution can take a toll on our cognitive abilities....

Suzanne Potter California News Service LOS ANGELES – California last week took a huge step toward the goal of running entirely on renewable energy, as the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power announced that it’s retiring three natural gas power plants. The L.A. DWP, which is the largest municipal utility...

Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk The concept of “daylight savings time” (DST), whereby we set our clocks ahead by an hour from mid-Spring through mid-Fall so we can get more done using natural light later into the evening, was first proposed more than 200 years ago by Benjamin...

Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk The concept of a “Green New Deal” (GND), first called for in a 2007 New York Times op-ed by Thomas Friedman, has been in the news lately thanks to a protest outside of Nancy Pelosi’s office in mid-November a week after the 2018 mid-term elections...